Fiction

THE FOLDED LEAFWilliam Maxwell
Harper's ($2.50). Subtle, sensitive, beautifully written story of the
friendship of two boys growing up through school and college in the
Midwest.

THE PRISONER  Ernst Lothar Doubleday, Doran ($2.75). In a U.S.
prison camp an Austrian P.O.W. faces death at the hands of his fellow
prisoners when he reveals the story of his own betrayal by Nazi false
witness and treachery. Convincing disillusionment with plenty of
suspense in the telling.